Flight Simulator PC Build

[SirStiggie]

Quick update. This makes no sense but I'll post it anyway. The only time the PC craps out is when playing Battlefield Hardline. I've played an hour of Dirt Rally and two of Battlefield 4 with no issues. Makes no sense. I will do more testing over the next couple of days..

[shawno]

Nice build!

Shame about those problems

[SirStiggie]

Finally traced the problem to an issue with Battlefield Hardline itself. For some reason, the resolution changed to something much higher than my monitor could handle after the Windows 10 upgrade. Once that was changed to the correct res, the problem went away.

 

No idea why that caused this problem but there we are.....

[Levahj]

Quick update. This makes no sense but I'll post it anyway. The only time the PC craps out is when playing Battlefield Hardline. I've played an hour of Dirt Rally and two of Battlefield 4 with no issues. Makes no sense. I will do more testing over the next couple of days..

Buy a cheap wattage tester, basically a pass through that goes on the plug. You be able to see if you are starting to reach the limits of the psu that way.

[SirStiggie]

Bit of an update.

 

My issue of freezing and or loss of power was definitely due to the power supply. Replaced the HX850 with an HX1200i and have not had any issues since.

 

 

I'm now working on tweaking my GPU's. So far, I've only been able to get them to 1354MHz stable. My cards are from two different manufacturers (Asus and EVGA) and are nVidia reference cards which is great as I was able to fit the EVGA hybrid cooler on that card without any issues. I have not been so lucky performance wise. I can get the EVGA card to 1450MHz stable but the Asus can't get past 1360MHz without freezing or causing a driver crash. Looks like not all reference cards are equal. 

 

That being said, I'm pretty happy with the performance of the system. So far, I'm getting 190+fps in BF4 and Hard Line at 1900X1200 with GPU temps in the low 50's. I will be testing with a borrowed 4K monitor this week and will post the results. 

 

 

 

 

 

[SirStiggie]

 

Happy new year everyone.

 

I made some changes to the rig and need some help.

 

First the changes:

 

Motherboard changed to EVGA Z170K

CPU changed to i7 6700k

RAM changed to G,Skill Rip Jaw 16GB X 2 kit

 

Problem:

 

I am unable to over clock the 6700k past 4.6GHz unless I set the voltage to 1.38. At that voltage, its stable at 4.8GHz. I am worried about the lifespan of the CPU at that voltage. What do you think?